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[Poor Richard's Almanac--Mark Anderson] Mark Yost: Desperate Hack Attack: Yost to spend a week in our Baghdad bureau, where he can see our Iraqi staff members' toothbrushes lined up in the bathroom because they have no running water at home. I frequently find them camping out in the office overnight because electricity is still only sporadic in their sweltering neighborhoods, despite what I'm sure are the best-intentioned efforts of people like his Marine buddy working on the electrical grid.
[Wilson's Blogmanac] Iraqi civilian casualties "128,000": According to the Graduate Institute of International Studies' database, 39,000 Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of combat or armed violence since March 2003. No official estimates of Iraqi casualties from the war have been issued by the Pentagon, which insists that it does not do 'body counts.' The Washington Post on July 12 reported that U.S. military deaths in Iraq now total 1,755.
[Healingiraq.blogspot.com] Healing Iraq: The United Iraqi Coalition slate includes all the Shi'ite Islamic parties and movements currently operating in Iraq. With a total of 228 candidates, it consists of: SCIRI (Abdul-Aziz Al-Hakim), Da'wa Islamic party (Ibrahim Al-Ja'fari), Da'wa Islamic party/Iraq's organisation (Abdul-Kareem Al-Annizi), Iraqi National Congress (Ahmed Al-Chalabi), Badr organisation (Hadi Al-Amiri), Hizbollah movement (Hassan Al-Sari), Hizbollah Al-Iraq (Abdul-Karim Al-Mahud), Al-Fadheela Islamic party (Nadim Al-Jabiri), Center Assembly party (Mahmud Mohammed Jawad), Shaheed Al-Mihrab organisation (Ammar Abdul-Aziz Al-Hakeem), Islamic Work organisation (Ibrahim Al-Mutayri), Sayyid Al-Shuhadaa organisation, Future Iraq Assembly (Ibrahim Bahr Al-Uloom), Justice and Equality Assembly (Suhail Al-Jaza'iri), Fayli Kurd Islamic Union (Tha'ir Al-Fayli), Islamic Fayli Assembly (Muqdad Al-Baghdadi), Turkomen Loyalty movement (Fariad Omar), and the Islamic Turkomen Union (Abbas Al-Bayyati).
[Dahrjamailiraq.com] Iraq Dispatches: Unlike reporters for major papers, wire services, and the TV news, he lacked the guards, vehicles, elaborate home base, tech support, fixers, and all the other appurtenances of an American journalist in the ever more dangerous Iraqi capital, a city now so filled with violence and explosions that the young blogger Riverbend recently wrote: "It is almost as if Baghdad has turned into a giant graveyard." Unlike most American reporters, however, Jamail (gambling his life) refused to let himself be trapped in his hotel and so his reporting was of the (rare) outside-the-Green-Zone variety. With his Iraqi translator and friend, he regularly interviewed ordinary Iraqis rather than officials of various sorts.
[Blog.newstandardnews.net] Iraq Dispatches: Abu Talat picks me up at my hotel and we’re off through the uncharacteristically empty streets of central Baghdad en route to the airport. It’s early enough that we drive with the windows down rather than running the air conditioner, and the warm breeze carries the sounds of shop owners sweeping the sidewalks in front of their stores, palm fronds rustling in the wind and growling treads of Bradley fighting vehicles as they rumble past.
[Oregonlive.com] OregonLive.com: The Oregonian's Iraq Blog: "KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq - Iraqi citizens assisted Coalition forces in finding more than 4000 pounds of .Baghdad Blog from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette .
[Back-to-iraq.com] Back to Iraq 3.0: The old Ba'athist Yassin is fighting the Iran-Iraq war all over again””as are many of the Ba'athist insurgents who strike at Jaafari's Shi'ite government because, they say, “It's Iranian.” And it's why Adnan al-Dulaimi, the custodian of Iraq's waqf and who claims to speak for several insurgent groups, calls for Sunni participation in Iraqi politics so they can combat shu'ubiyyah, a racist term favored by Ba'athists that basically calls Iraqi Shi'ites “Persians”””although “dirty Persians” might be more accurate in its interpretation. This has enraged my Shi'ite sources.
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